Broadly speaking, the newspaper says, the books “center on a famous 20th-century man — and the sometimes forgotten woman at his side. Through the magic of fiction, novelists are creating a prism that illuminates history and love, bringing these women back to life.”

Ms. McLain's hit novel “tells the story of the lovely and supportive Hadley Richardson, who met and married a young newspaperman from the Midwest,” USA Today notes. The husband's name: Ernest Hemingway.

While Hemingway “became a writer admired by millions, wife No. 1 was replaced by glossier, richer wife No. 2,” USA Today says. “Thus Hadley and her story disappeared — until McLain's novel found a large audience.”

Several other books, the paper says, are looking to repeat the formula, including “The Aviator's Wife,” about Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and “Call Me Zelda,” about Zelda Fitzgerald.

Ms. McLain, 47, tells USA Today that her heroine and her novel stir up readers.

"My book in particular, it makes people angry," Ms. McLain says. "Nobody is neutral about Hemingway; either you love him or you hate him. He's the striver, he's the one with this enormous ego while she's this Victorian throwback, a St. Louis girl. Hadley worries about her weight, her haircut. She's just trying to hold onto her own self in this incredibly volatile situation."

The subject of her next novel: Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre.

"It's a historical novel about their really, really complex relationship, emotionally and professionally," she says. "It's just that Pierre was never more famous. Marie was the one driving the cart."

“Faced with profound and seemingly irreversible shifts, the legal profession is contemplating radical changes to its educational system, including cutting the curriculum, requiring far more on-the-ground training and licensing technicians who are not full lawyers,” the newspaper reports.

The proposals “are a result of numerous factors, including a sharp drop in law school applications, the outsourcing of research over the Internet, a glut of underemployed and indebted law school graduates and a high percentage of the legal needs of Americans going unmet,” according to The Times.

The newspaper notes that the University of Akron is among a few schools freezing tuition; Akron also essentially is ending its out-of-state surcharge.

Even as schools increase hands-on learning, “critics are increasingly saying that the legal academy cannot solve its own problems, partly because of the vested interests of tenured professors tied to an antiquated system,” The Times reports.

Coal-fired power generation rose 8.9% last month compared with January 2012 levels “on higher electricity demand and gas prices and less power generated from nuclear and renewable sources,” Reuters reports, based on figures from energy data provider Genscape.

Overall power demand started 2013 out 3.2% higher compared with January last year, driven by very cold weather in the fourth week of January.

Nuclear power output dropped 2%, in part because of an unplanned, six-day outage at FirstEnergy Corp.'s Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Lake County, Genscape reports.

Looking to drop a few pounds? Consider moving west, or at least taking a long vacation there.

Reuters reports that Americans who live where the air is thinnest are less likely to be obese than those in low-lying areas, according to a new study.

“Based on data for more than 400,000 people in the United States, researchers found Americans living closest to sea level were four to five times more likely to be obese, compared to people who live well above sea level in Colorado,” the news service reports. The study found that elevation can affect appetite hormones, growth and how many calories the body burns.

Cynthia Beall, an anthropology professor at Case Western Reserve University who researches how the body adapts to high altitudes but was not involved with the new study, tells Reuters that it's common for travelers to high elevations to burn more calories in their first few weeks.

“That person would probably lose some weight during the course of a three-week vacation … It would in fact be an interesting question whether that would sustain," she says.

“If you're a young, single person looking for a woman to date this Valentine's Day, move to Cleveland.”

That's the advice from TheStreet.com, based on the new “In the Mood for Love Index” compiled by real estate tracking site Zillow.

TheStreet.com says Zillow, which estimates market values for almost every home in America, ranked the 150 largest U.S. cities for a range of singles-friendly factors. For opposite-sex partners, the company even looked at each locale's ratio of young single men to young single women.

Smaller cities such as Cleveland “actually outscored most big metro areas because Zillow considered affordability as a key factor in its study,” according to the story.

Here is Zillow's analysis of Cleveland, which ranks in the 90th percentile for single young women as a percentage of all residents, and the 78th percentile for walkability and affordability.

If you've run out of potential mates here, other strong cities in which to find a single woman are Memphis; Irving, Texas; Glendale, Calif.; and Worcester, Mass.

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